There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.

Sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can't read the address.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

Keeping a journal is like taking good care of one’s heart.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.

If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.